Re: Should fast-evolving packages be backports-only?
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On 2014-11-11 15:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > However, candidate packages due to reason (c) above really are a problem,
> > IMHO they shouldn't be in stable in the first place.
>
> Does this mean that I should ask for the removal of youtube-dl from testing?
I don't think youtube-dl is in reason (c), if anything it would be in (b).
> from many sites, the target sites are moving too fast (that's the nature
> of the web) and there's no chance that I will be hunting minimal patches
> to fix breakage of multiple sites, as upstream generally refactors the
> whole thing constantly and as multiple sites may get broken, the pile of
> patches would sometimes be larger than the code to extract data from
> some simpler sites.
Well, yeah, that could be a problem, as that much change can easily
introduce regressions.
I'd ask the release managers if they're OK with the heavy use of
stable-updates for this.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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